Commit Graph

2 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Josh Poimboeuf 4c92057661 Documentation: Add swapgs description to the Spectre v1 documentation
Add documentation to the Spectre document about the new swapgs variant of
Spectre v1.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2019-08-03 21:21:54 +02:00
Tim Chen 6e88559470 Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
Add documentation for Spectre vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms:

- Explain the problem and risks
- Document the mitigation mechanisms
- Document the command line controls
- Document the sysfs files

Co-developed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-26 11:42:41 -06:00